To Police: ‘Hey Helmets, We’re Your Brothers’

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s strongest opposition force, said on its website this morning that it would call out its full numbers onto the streets. That surely added to today’s crowd.

Meanwhile, shop owners in the working class neighborhood of Attaba, normally the scene of a massive weekly market on Friday, shuttered their shops. When some among the assembled demonstrators began throwing rocks, the rest of the crowd quickly admonished them.

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